Reports
Workforce Trend Reports by Sector
Reports tracking engineering hiring demand, skills gaps, and workforce trends across the infrastructure sectors we support.
What this library covers
Industry Reports
This library answers how hiring demand and skills availability are shifting within a given infrastructure sector.
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5 articles in this library
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- Industry Report - Outlook
Engineering Workforce Outlook: The Demand Drivers That Matter
An analysis of the structural forces driving engineering labour demand across power, data centers, semiconductor, manufacturing and infrastructure, and the disciplines where those forces converge.
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- 9 min read
- Industry Report - Industrial Operations
Workforce Planning for Plant Turnarounds and Outages
Plant turnarounds and scheduled outages compress a year of maintenance work into a few weeks, and the engineers who can run that compression well - project engineers, schedulers, QA/QC, and mechanical engineers with outage experience - are in shorter supply than the outage calendar assumes.
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- 8 min
- Industry Report - Manufacturing
Reshored Manufacturing's Automation Talent Problem
Reshoring announcements have added plant capacity across semiconductors, batteries, and general manufacturing, but the PLC, SCADA, and automation engineering workforce needed to commission and run those lines is smaller than the announcements assume.
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- 8 min
- Industry Report - Power & Utilities
Substation and Grid Modernization Workforce Report
Interconnection queues, renewable integration, and aging infrastructure replacement are driving substation project counts up sharply, while the protection engineering workforce skews older than almost any other discipline in this report set.
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- 8 min
- Industry Report - Data Centers
The Hyperscale Data Center Engineering Labor Report
Hyperscale campuses are being built in parallel across regions that never had a mission-critical construction base, and the engineers who can validate 2N electrical systems are not multiplying at the same rate as the square footage.
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- 9 min
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Published and in production
- In development
Skills Gap Analysis for Data Center Commissioning Engineers
An assessment of the widening gap between demand for commissioning engineers and available qualified candidates.
- Research in progress
Grid Modernization and Demand for Protection Engineers
A report examining how grid modernization projects are shifting demand for protection and controls talent.
- Scheduled
Water Infrastructure Workforce Trends Through Aging Systems
Analysis of workforce demand tied to aging water infrastructure replacement projects.
- Scheduled
Bridge and Highway Rehabilitation Engineering Demand Outlook
A forward-looking report on structural engineering hiring demand tied to infrastructure funding cycles.
- In development
Hyperscale Construction and the Controls Engineer Shortage
An examination of how hyperscale data center growth is affecting availability of controls engineering talent.
- Research in progress
Utility Workforce Aging and Succession Planning Trends
A report on retirement trends among utility engineers and the resulting hiring pressure on employers.
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- Engineering disciplines we recruitTwenty discipline pages covering responsibilities, certifications and hiring difficulty.
- Industries we staffData centers, utilities, automation, construction, manufacturing and energy programs.
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